Members

Fred Genesee

Professor
Department of Psychology
McGill University
Stewart Biological Sciences Bldg., 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue #N7/19
tel: 514-398-6022
e-mail: genesee(at)ego.psych.mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition

Areas of Expertise

Second language and bilingual acquisition, second language teaching, bilingual education, literacy, language development in adopted children

Current Research Interests

Current research projects include studies of (a) the development of grammatical competence in children acquiring two languages simultaneously, (b) speech processing in bilingual infants, (c) language and reading acquisition in school contexts by typically-developing children and children with language or reading impairments; and (d) language development by international adoptees.

Selected Publications

  • Comeau, L., Genesee, F. & Mendelson, M. (In press). Bilingual children’s repairs of breakdowns in communication. Journal of Child Language.
  • Genesee, F. & Geva, E. (2006). Cross-linguistic relationships in working memory, phonological processes, and oral language. In D. August & T. Shanahan (Eds.), Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners (pp. 169-177). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Genesee, F., Lindholm-Leary, K., Saunders, W. & Christian, D. (2006). Educating English Language Learners: A Synthesis of Research Evidence. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
  • Genesee, F., & Nicoladis, E. (2006). Bilingual first language acquisition. In E. Hoff & M. Shatz (eds.), Handbook of Language Development (pp. 324-342). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
  • Zwanziger, E. E., Allen, S.E.M., & Genesee, F. (2006). Crossl-inguistic influence in bilingual acquisition: Subject omission in learners of Inuktitut and English. Journal of Child Language, 32, 893-910.
  • Sundara, M., Polka, L., & Genesee, F. (2005). Language-experience facilitates discrimination of /d-D / in monolingual and bilingual acquisition of English. Cognition, 1-20.
  • Genesee, F., Paradis, J., & Crago, M. (2004). Dual Language Development and Disorders. Brookes.

Graduate Students

  • Caroline Erdos (PhD candidate)
  • Karine Gauthier (PhD candidate)
  • Erin White (PhD candidate)

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